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* Release Notes - SystemML - Version SystemML 1.1

New Capabilities/Features
- Dense matrix blocks >16GB, and operations
- Support bitwise operators not, and, or, xor, & LShift, Rshift
- Additional ParFor result aggregation operations
- UDFs callable in expressions
- zero rws/columns matrices
- Extended Caffe2DML and Keras2DML APIs

New Builtin Functions
- ifelse()

Performance Improvements
- Ultra-sparse operations

Internals
- Single-precision support for native conv2d and mm operations.
- Consolidate replicated compilation chain
- Generalize Binary Operations to (vector, matrix) Operands
- Use common thread pool

Bug Fixes 
- in APIs, performance bugs, optimizer, runtime, GPU backend, Spark 
backend.

Experimental
- Codegen

Deprecate
- Support for Spark 2.1/2.2 (make switch to newer ANTLR version)

Detailed JIRA release notes are here: 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12342282&styleName=Text&projectId=12319522&Create=Create&atl_token=A5KQ-2QAV-T4JA-FDED%7C2e97f76f75a466564dba2a7d0bec5ca06bffd66e%7Clout


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Berthold Reinwald
IBM Almaden Research Center
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